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wlielks as food for fowls and ducks and as bait, I can recommeud 

 nothing at present with certainty. But in Thisted the ducks and fowls which 

 live by the harbour, like to eat the whelks brought to land by the fishermen; I 

 have bought and eaten one of the ducks fed in this way; the taste was not in the 

 least disagreeable, like ducks fed on fishes; the reasou being, that the whelks 

 contaiu but a small proportion of fat. 



I may now turn to a discussiou of the experimental fishing undertaken 

 in 1910, to give information regarding the number of barreis of whelks, which 

 might be fished in Thisted Bredning from a motor-boat with 2 men. 



In 1909, for the purpose of obtaiuing whelks for salting and for other 



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investigations, I had procured ca. 50 whelk hi ve- trap s, bait-traps as they 

 were called in the Sound, where in earlier years (in the eighties) they were used 

 for obtainiug bait. This fishery has now almost entirely ceased there, it is said 

 for want of Avhelks; nor do I know of other piaces in the country where the 

 method is still used. These whelk hivetraps are represented in fig. 7, one hangiug 

 outside the boat ready to be sunk down to the bottom. They are made of willows 

 and have a funnel-shaped opening et each end; one of the ends is loose, to be 

 taken ofE when new bait has to be placed inside and the entrapped whelks taken 

 out. The traps must have a weight to make them sink and lie steady, or the 

 whelks will not enter. They are furnished with a rope, which at the surface of 

 the water ends at a wooden buoy, so that the traps can be found again. It was 

 at once found, that it was difficult in the Limfjord to buy bait for these traps. 

 Fresh fish, dried fish, salted fish were all too expensive. I then ordered second- 

 class, but fresh, split cod through an Icelandic firm; it cost but some few øre per 

 pound and turned out to be good. Tainted split cod, however, which I once got 



